[Mankind]

This film is about a junkie (Benicio Del Toro) who moves in with a woman (Halle Berry) after her husband (David Duchovny), his best friend, dies, and tries to kick his habit there. Del Toro is captivating to watch, but to be honest nothing really happens in the film. I have a great deal of patience for films, but this pushed it to the limit. There is a strong theme of forgiveness, getting over the death of a loved one, but not much substance. The dialogue is unrealistic and seems to be written to fit the story as opposed to happening as a consequence of the story.

If you like the sound of cigarette-sucking you will like this film, as Del Toro smokes pretty much constantly and for some reason the volume of the aforementioned sucking is increased by 1000%.

This is a boring, pointless film really.